He retired from the British Army's Coldstream Guards with the rank of Major in 1977.
[citation needed] A daughter is the model and actress Tania Harcourt-Cooze.
[2] The ancestral home is The Chanter's House in Ottery St Mary in Devon.
Coleridge was the last family member to live there because the increasing costs of maintaining the property caused the family trust in October 2006 to put the property up for sale and auction the contents.
[3][4] In 1999 Coleridge had attempted to lease part of the family estate in order to raise money to prevent the sale.